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The thing is, who uses mobile GMail? when my wife wants to use my tablet to check her mail.
Which type of tablet? This is solved in Android 4.2 with multiple accounts. You can both use the native client without privacy concerns.
I hate being the guy who sidetracks a thread off the bat by complaining about something unrelated, but... Whatever blogspot theme Google uses for this blog is just god awful (oh, I see, this is it: http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/as-you-may-have-noticed-gm... ), and I swear it gets worse every time I view a post there. To wit: When I load the page I see the orange "loading" gears. Then that sliiiiides up to reveal…
Fail Google.
facepalm All of the pain points that this supposedly solves have already been solved with tabs. Middle click compose and all of those problems are solved with the added bonus of having an entire screen to write your email in. Google is being taken over by pointy haired managers and marketing. RIP.
I seem to recall that both Google search and Gmail were initially popular with technically sophisticated users. I remember proselytising this amazing new search engine to people still using Lycos, or Yahoo, or Alta Vista, or whatever it was back then. I used to be able to get very accurate results in Google search with judicious use of quotes, excluded terms, and exact phrases. Now, Google second-guesses what I reall…
Open mutt (preferably under screen so you can 'C-a "' between mail folders), view message(s) you want to reference (optionally: tag relevant messages, using mutt's filtering tools as necessary, than 'l ~T' to restrict to just the tagged messages, allowing you to rapidly reference a set of messages.
Fire up a new terminal window (I bind this to 't' in my window manager) and write "mutt -s 'subject line'" to start your message, drop into the address lookup window to designate recipients, and edit away in your editor of choice.
And all of this without the multi-gigabyte overhead of a full browser session + gmail.
Oh yeah: offlineimap means you can work on your GMail account (and/or any other accounts you've configured for mutt) readily.
Just sayin'.
I use Gmail basically ever since it was on early early stages (I even pay for more storage for years now) and the degradation of performance is the one thing that makes me think of leaving the service for something snappier.
I hate being the guy who sidetracks a thread off the bat by complaining about something unrelated, but... Whatever blogspot theme Google uses for this blog is just god awful (oh, I see, this is it: http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.uk/p/as-you-may-have-noticed-gm... ), and I swear it gets worse every time I view a post there. To wit: When I load the page I see the orange "loading" gears. Then that sliiiiides up to reveal…
Worse yet, they've somehow broken the ability to hit space to scroll by a page.
I would really appreciate if Google took some time to work on the speed issues we now experience with Gmail instead of working on this cosmetic changes. I use Gmail basically ever since it was on early early stages (I even pay for more storage for years now) and the degradation of performance is the one thing that makes me think of leaving the service for something snappier.
My personal gmail has less than 3gb, and I dont notice any performance issues.
I prefer Gmail since its redesign back in April. There, I said it.
I mostly like it, except the contact info side bar can cut into my email pane when I dont have my browser fullscreened.
Midway while typing this post, I did a search and boom: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3581613